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Rebekka E. Böhme lives in Berlin/Bremen and has been working as a freelance dancer and choreographer since 2007. She collaborates with artists from various fields, choreographers, and companies, such as the Volksbühne Berlin/René Pollesch, Derida Dance Company, Deutsches Theater, performing:group, SETanztheater, the guts company, Alexandra Rauh, Yoshiko Waki, Alexandra Pirici, Naneci Yurdagül, VoLA StageArt, shua group, and others.
Her projects, performances, and festivals have also taken her to Turkey, the Netherlands, Greece, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Spain, Portugal, Serbia, and Hungary, among other places.
She studied dance in Berlin and continued her training in Salzburg (with Cie LAROQUE/Helene Weinzierl & Jurai Korec) and in Jerusalem/Tel Aviv (Gaga and guest student at Vertigo Dance Company) as well as at numerous dance and circus workshops, including with Peeping Tom, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Anton Lachky, öff öff productions, CAB - Circus Akademie Berlin, Cirkus in Beweging Leuven (Erasmus+ scholarship 2019). In addition to her training in Bungee Dance in 2021, she has since attended Vertical & Aerial Dance workshops and master classes with Magalie Lanriot, Roel Seeber, Wanda Moretti, Kate Lawrence, Lindsey Butcher, Chantal McCormick, Amelia Rudolph, Juan Leiba, Antoine Le Menestrel and others.
From 2021 to 2022, Rebekka was a scholarship holder of the University of Hildesheim Foundation and the Federal Academy for Cultural Education in Wolfenbüttel, where she completed the one-year certification course "Artistic Interventions in Cultural Education," funded by the Mercator Foundation.
Rebekka's own artistic productions are created in a wide variety of contexts and often through interdisciplinary collaborations. Inspired by people, nature, science and different places, she creates dance theatre, installative and site-specific performances, experimental dance films and vertical/aerial dance performances at lofty heights. Interested in different realities and perceptions of the (surrounding) world, she focuses on the physical and theatrical potentials of the body and explores an emotional and abstract way of storytelling.
From 2009 to 2013, she was part of the artist collective mind_the_gut, where she realised cross-genre works in collaboration with Johanna Roggan and artists from art disciplines such as film, music, interactive design, acting and more.
Additionally, Rebekka works in the fields of cultural education (e.g., Neue Nationalgalerie), concept development, and project coordination. She has organized cultural, dance and exhibition events, coordinated festivals, and assisted in dance and theater productions.
Furthermore, she teaches contemporary dance both in Germany and abroad, leads workshops and performance projects, and works as a circus trainer. She regularly develops performative and circus-related works with young people and teaches dance on elastic/static ropes, incorporating the play of the flying body.
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